Nowadays the world is changing so rapidly that the education system for them simply do not have time. There is an understanding that excellent performance in school does not guarantee a brilliant professional future and prestigious profession, which today are taught in high schools, in 10 years could simply vanish into fly.
Analysts say that about 60% of today's students will take jobs which now does not exist, and Therefore, the modern teenager, except for mastering the curriculum, needs a number of skills that will help him in building career.
Self-discipline. More and more people today prefer not to sit in the office all day long, and plan your own day. And many companies are going to meet them. In addition, the employer is also beneficial: you do not have a huge office, organize jobs, buy equipment, furniture, stationery and household chemicals. Yes, and salary not to pay, depending on the time spent in the office, and on the outcome of the work performed is also much cheaper. Therefore workspace at home, in a cafe or in the park with a laptop on your lap becomes the norm. But to work, so that all you need to have time to have a high level of self-discipline and to master time management. After all, you are out of the office no one controls, and distractions and temptations much more.
Adaptability. In a world of rapidly changing information you need to be able to work according to plan, and quickly and weighed decisions depending on the situation. All standard and formulaic methods completely automated, and will be the price people with a flexible creative thinking, who know how to think "outside the circuit." Therefore, the modern teenager is very important today to develop logic, intelligence and thinking in general. This may contribute to the arts (painting, music, poetry) and logic games.
Emotional intelligence. The ability to recognize and manage their emotions without suppressing them, immediately recognize the emotional states and moods other people and to adapt to any company to respond correctly to the words and actions of others and influence, if necessary them. Already, these skills are considered most important for achieving the goals. In order to train their emotional intelligence, the teenager is useful to expand your circle of contacts with a variety of interests, to fall into another, different from the school, the environment.
Virtual collaboration. Employees who work remotely outside the office, you must kommunitsiirovat with each other, to build common plans, to adapt to time and working hours of each other. now there are virtual offices, the ability to work in which it is very important. In this sense, the modern teenager help everyday communication via the Internet when communication is built in writing, as well as the ability to use new computer technologies.
Interdisciplinarity. Stay narrow specialists in the future will not succeed. We'll have to learn the ropes, not only in the industry but sometimes in very distant from her fields. For example, an engineer may need knowledge of medicine, biology, computer technology, as demanded sphere of activity will be the bioengineering. A specialist in working with artificial intelligence, in addition to computer technology need knowledge of philosophy. What related to your business disciplines will be useful in the future is hard to say, so we can only advise to develop general knowledge and broad outlook.
Cooperation. In order to work in the project must be able to establish communication with other people. Already, many progressive companies abandon traditional scheme of "superior-subordinate", preferring to build a loose framework within which operates a number of small teams.
To learn how to interact with other people, you can try to arrange with friends your project: for example, a photo-presentation, a film or a music video. And even if not immediately everything goes smoothly, it will develop the ability to listen to other people, to take into account their views and argue their own.
Intercultural competence. Already, the boundaries are gradually erased and there is a lot of international projects. And only one foreign language skills will not suffice. To work with other cultures, it is necessary to understand their traditions and national features. To learn it, you can make friends with their peers from other countries on social networks and try to establish dialogue with them in such a way that it is of mutual interest.
Continuous updating of knowledge. Just learn in school and receive a diploma in high school are not enough. If you want to be a sought-after specialist, you have to learn for life. Technology is now changing rapidly, there is a lot of new information in a particular area, and some profession and do transform into others. Therefore, to achieve professional heights in the modern world without the ability and desire to learn is not possible. And it is not about cramming, but about the ability to look critically at the information and find the point.
Ability to work with information. Thanks to the Internet, today you can find any information you need without leaving your chair. Therefore there is no need to be a human encyclopedia, and keep everything in your head. Memory no longer need to store information in it, and for knowing where you can quickly find reliable information on any topic. For this useful skill to perfection use search engines correctly the request and to think critically about the information received.
A comprehensive look at the problem. When simple tasks will be to carry out the machine, especially important are the skills that are available exclusively to man. One of them - a systematic approach to solving the problem, the ability to look at it from above, to see hidden connections and meanings, what is called "reading between the lines." The ability to get to the root of the problem, to understand the deeper meaning of what is happening properly and promptly respond to it, to treat not a "symptom", and the reason - such skills will be particularly valuable in the future.
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